00:16:42 Kate Smith - CSLP President (for 3 more weeks!): Hello to all my Tennessee librarians!!! 00:16:43 Ginny DiFrancesco: Ginny & Janice from Paw Paw, WV 00:16:47 Corri Hines: Good morning! (and hello dear library friends in Pennsylvania!) 00:16:49 Cara Eden: Hello from Arizona! 00:16:51 Lucinda Faunce: Hello from Palmyra NE 00:16:52 Chetna Kukreja: Good Moring from Ewing NJ 00:16:53 Amanda Coleman: Good morning from Alabama! 00:16:57 Jacque Sherrill: Hi From Jetmore, Kansas 00:17:04 Megan Hammond: Good morning from AZ! 00:17:06 Danielle Ave: Hi from Cottonwood, Arizona! 00:17:08 Sharon Rawlins: Good morning from Trenton, NJ! 00:17:13 Megan Conelly: Good morning from Nevada! 00:17:22 Michelle DeVore: I feel like it's always Summer Reading! 00:17:23 Cierra Atanasio: Hello from Idaho! 00:17:26 Jeni Schomber: Wearing my Love My Library hoodie! 00:17:32 Kate Smith - CSLP President (for 3 more weeks!): If you have questions, please put them in the Q&A box so we don't miss them. 00:17:38 Sharon Clarke: Good Morning from Cherry Hill, NJ! 00:17:46 Kate Smith - CSLP President (for 3 more weeks!): The Q&A box is at the bottom of the presentation box 00:17:49 Chylene Click: Good morning from north central Indiana :) 00:18:01 Kaitlin Ward: central time check in! 00:18:03 Cathy Lancaster: Hello from our Connect & Learn watch party at the Library of Michigan! 00:18:13 Krista Mayer: Good morning from Albany, Vermont! 00:18:14 Pamela Czarniak: Hi from Dunkirk NY 00:18:17 Abby Chumin: A detailed schedule is on the Summer Symposium webpage: https://docs.google.com/document/d/13PSGdixCjos_Mq2mKRDnN25V5tRgxv4jDreN9W8Jhv8/edit?tab=t.0 00:18:37 Abby Chumin: The chat, slides and recordings will be posted when available at: https://www.cslpreads.org/professional-development/ 00:18:42 Tara Bahnsen: Hello from Ohio! 00:18:43 Brianna Mott: Thank you Abby! 00:19:12 Windy Cardarelli: Good morning from a "snow day" in Central New York 00:19:56 Terry Register: Hello from Harrison, AR 00:20:08 Tammy Sickmon: good morning 00:20:32 Adrianna Brister: Hi from Grant Parish Library in Louisiana :) 00:20:32 Emily Garland: Thank you, hoopla! 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I knew her when....:-) 00:25:14 Kate Smith - CSLP President (for 3 more weeks!): Abby has done an outstanding job putting together this Symposium. She's going to be an excellent President. 00:25:19 Abby Chumin: Hey Megan :) 00:25:22 Kate Smith - CSLP President (for 3 more weeks!): WHOO HOO Dawn too!!!! 00:25:38 Valerie Newby: Yay! Abby!!! 00:25:38 Tabetha Barry: Hello All!! Happy to be here! 00:25:48 Kate Smith - CSLP President (for 3 more weeks!): ❤️ our CSLP staff!!! 00:26:05 Carol Gleichauf: Good morning to everyone! 00:26:07 Sally Snyder: Thank you CSLP staff! 00:26:10 Ken Marston: Hello from Kansas. 00:26:11 Monique Perez: Good morning from Pima County Public Library (Tucson, AZ)! 00:26:20 Lareyna Cook: Hello! Hondo Public Library - Texas 00:26:33 Susan Korsnick: Good morning from York County Libraries in PA, Monee and Susan here! 00:26:42 Christian Somerville: Hello from Warren County Memorial Library from Warrenton, NC 00:26:52 Veronica Moreno: Hello & god morning to everyone! we are 3 of us taking it from Tolleson Public Library in Arizona. :) 00:27:23 Sandra Adler: Hi from West Nyack Free Library, NY 00:27:51 Donna Throckmorton: Strategic Plan - https://www.cslpreads.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/CSLP-Strategic-Plan-One-Pager.pdf 00:27:57 Jennifer Volkert: Good Morning from Holbrook, Arizona - Navajo County Library District 00:28:13 Afton Forred: I love his work, and so do my storytime kids. 00:28:14 Donna Throckmorton: 2025 Annual Stats - https://www.cslpreads.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/2025-Color-Our-World-Annual-Report-of-CSLP-Stats-Committee.pdf 00:28:20 Adrianna Brister: Hello from Louisiana! 00:28:39 Valerie Newby: Morning Dan! 00:28:41 Caroline Maxwell: Loving Lefty with him and Mo Willems! 00:28:45 Love Beatty: Hello! Love Beatty -- Clymer Library, Pocono Pines, PA 00:28:50 Jennifer Rush: Good morning Dan! 00:29:05 Bre Winters: Morning Dan! Excited to hear from you! Your work is awesome! 00:29:07 Florence Foster: My kids love you Dan Santat 00:29:20 Laura Mullins: I'm so excited to meet you Dan. My family loves your books! 00:30:02 Afton Forred: One study on cell phone free schools found a dramatic rise in library use. That's fascinating. 00:31:03 Sharon Rawlins: There's nothing more magical than being read to - at any age! 00:33:38 Gina Vaccaro: Shoutout Brooklyn! 🙌🏽 00:34:20 Christian Somerville: Interesting 00:35:07 Florence Foster: Nice outlets there in Camarillo 00:35:23 Abby Chumin: Any questions for 00:35:39 Abby Chumin: Dan? put then in the Q and A! 00:36:24 Kate Smith - CSLP President (for 3 more weeks!): In the bottom right corner of your screen you should see a menu with “Participants, Chat,” and three dots. Click on the dots and select Q&A. When you are ready to ask a question, select “All Cohosts” and then type and send your message. Most questions will be held until the end of the presentations. 00:38:52 Carolyn Ferguson: love these books 00:39:07 Lisa Livesay: I vividly remember reading Where the Red Fern Grows in school and EVERYBODY crying! 00:39:09 Bridgette Robertson: Very good points! 00:39:32 Sherri Lazenby: My teacher read Summer of the Monkeys. I loved Rawlings. 00:39:39 Arrington Thomas: Being from South Florida ( Miami) - I read the above books 00:39:44 Monica Mitchell: I have always been a voracious reader, but I HATED being told I HAD to read something. So, I bucked against every book ever assigned in school! 00:40:40 Arrington Thomas: The love of reading ! 00:41:28 Afton Forred: The Goonies was my favorite 00:41:57 Emily Garland: Gen X all the way! 00:42:04 Ruth Frasur Davis: Flowers in the Attic!!! 00:42:06 Michelle Sedillo: Those were the days 00:42:08 Susan Korsnick: Anyone else "vintage" enough to remember the leveled SRA Reading Card box. That variety is what made me fall in love with reading. 00:42:18 Katy Hite: YES! Flowers in the Attic made it's way through my sixth grade class like wildfire! 00:42:28 Jean Fellows: FITA--OMG! 00:42:30 Monica Mitchell: We were raised on the unhinged things we were allowed to read in the 80’s and 90’s 00:42:31 Dan Barker: Were there any J Fiction Books that you eventually connected with? 00:42:31 Caroline Herfindahl: SRA Reading! Yes! 00:42:50 Cina Shirley: I LOVED the SRA boxes!!! 00:43:11 Patty Dalton: I remember the SRA Reading Card box, it was my favorite thing to do after finishing other class work! 00:43:25 Beth Yates: @Dan Barker, if you'd like to ask Dan that question, be sure to put it in the Q&A! 00:43:29 Jennifer Murray: Storytelling takes many forms and they are all valuable! 00:44:00 Emily Quillen: Disco Elysium is a good example of a modern graphic adventure 00:44:10 Janet Makoujy: Choose Your Own Adventure series was/is popular 00:44:17 Afton Forred: I love the Legend of Zelda video games because of their stories. 00:44:18 Michelle Sedillo: Choose Your Own Adventure books were the best 00:44:30 Mindy Roberts: @Emily Quillen, I was just thinking the same thing! 00:45:06 Janet Makoujy: Kids still love Gary Larsen's Far Side Comics 00:45:20 Emily Quillen: @Mindy Roberts It's such a good story 00:45:24 Afton Forred: One of my young patrons loves Calvin and Hobbes. 00:45:37 Konstantina Bankhead: Kids Love Garfield 00:45:41 Stacia Serafin: I beg to differ, kids LOVE stickers! 00:45:46 Em Thomas: Kids care about stickers at our library but YMMV I guess, LOL 00:45:47 Michelle Shonebarger: Kids still love stickers here. 00:45:48 Beth Yates: Garfield is from Indiana!! :D 00:45:54 Sharon Rawlins: I agree that kids still love stickers. 00:45:54 Abdiellisse Almodovar: our patrons (adults and children) LOVE stickers 00:45:55 Kati Lee: @Afton The Legend of Zelda is fantastic! 00:45:56 Charlotte Cunningham: Kids here love stickers! 00:45:58 Michelle Cuccherini: Sticker motivation is legit! 00:46:02 Florence Foster: Grown ups love stickers too 00:46:03 Adrianna Brister: Kids totally love stickers here! lol 00:46:04 Monica Mitchell: @afton forred: I love that Calvin and Hobbes is still connecting with kids 00:46:04 Emily Garland: Love our sticker sheets here 00:46:11 Chelsea Funk: we still use sticker sheets!! 00:46:15 Gina Vaccaro: Kids LOVE stickers at my library! 00:46:19 Sean Buvala: Stickers are still hot. 00:46:20 Kati Lee: Stickers are for everyone! 00:46:22 Piper Nowlin: Sticker motivation is still big here. 00:46:30 Jennifer McCulley: We have a huge sticker drawer. 00:46:37 Shelby Hanigan: Stickers are popular along with tattoos 00:46:39 Sherri Lazenby: reading is reading 00:46:42 Em Thomas: I spend so much time trying to convince grown ups that graphic novels are "real reading" because it's so popular here 00:46:48 Ruth Frasur Davis: Beth Yates! Hello!!!! 00:47:11 Beth Yates: Hi Ruth!! Glad to see you here! :) 00:47:16 Sharon Gulla Gulla: Kids love to pick out a sticker when they leave the library! 00:47:16 Gabi Cumberbatch: One of our popular programs is a comic book club. The kids are so engaged in the discussion! 00:47:25 Konstantina Bankhead: Stickers are very popular at the Library where I work1 00:47:26 Ruth Frasur Davis: Beth, same! <3 00:47:32 Jennifer Stranger: I do a "reading bead" program at our local elementaries - the kids earn a bead for every 5 books (or chapters) read. They go nuts for these beads! The teachers were reluctant to let me count their graphic novels the first year. 3 years later, they are with me. They branch out - the gateway! 00:47:44 Amy Olson: Peanuts 00:47:44 Sharon Rawlins: I loved Calvin and Hobbs too, 00:47:48 Amanda Rios-Place: Garfield as a reading gateway drug!😂 00:47:48 Jennifer Rush: My sons love Calvin and Hobbes 00:48:06 Abdiellisse Almodovar: I used Legend of Zelda to help my nephews with their reading. I would have them read the dialog out loud and explain the story to me 00:48:10 Anne Osborne: love the imagination of Calvin! 00:49:03 Michelle Sedillo: My start to reading was the Serendipity series- anyone remember that? 00:49:24 Abby Chumin: Yes Michelle! 00:49:41 Kelby Lawson: I love the Serendipity stories! 00:50:12 Michelle Sedillo: That's great! I'm so glad people still remember them. I loved them so much I kept the books :) 00:50:53 Beth Yates: All young people need supportive people in their lives outside of their family! I'm so glad Dan had that teacher! 00:51:27 Connie Schuett: Jennifer S., II would like to hear more about your "reading bead" program 00:51:44 Gina Vaccaro: A librarian is part of your origin story 🤩 00:52:13 Bre Winters: That's such a beautiful story! 00:52:14 Abdiellisse Almodovar: that's so sweet 00:52:28 Alani Herd: Love that story! 00:52:34 Anne Osborne: Wonderful and inspiring story! 00:52:36 Nuray Moreno: Gabi Cumberbatch I would love to hear more about your comic book club! that sounds so much fun! 00:54:01 Monica Mitchell: HOLY COW!!!! 00:54:19 Cierra Atanasio: Amazing!!!! 00:54:30 Tracey Reed: @ Gabi Comberbatch please share detrrails 00:54:41 Jennifer Stranger: Connie S - my e-mail is roachdalepubliclibrary@gmail.com - happy to share from Roachdale, IN! 00:54:59 Ruth Frasur Davis: Jennifer Stranger! Hello!! 00:55:13 Jeanette Benbow: YES! Hero's Quest was awesome!! 00:56:24 Gabi Cumberbatch: We use the Comics Plus app as our reading source; it also allows for the kids to all read the same comic without needing physical copies in the library. We read the first chapter, discuss, and then we do a craft. The kids have such excellent feedback every month! 00:56:29 Abdiellisse Almodovar: I remember this lol 00:56:43 Michelle Shonebarger: Yep, very 80s 00:56:45 Abdiellisse Almodovar: poor jason 00:56:46 Emily Quillen: That was a wild storyline 00:57:52 Caitlin Everhart: Superman killed death haha 00:58:09 Dawn Krause: Loved Walden Books in the mall! 00:58:11 Afton Forred: I miss Waldenbooks 00:58:20 Leigh Ramey: RIP Waldenbooks! 00:58:25 Ruth Frasur Davis: Walden Books. Also...Akira <3 00:58:32 Michelle Sedillo: Loved Waldenbooks. Also really miss Borders 00:58:43 Afton Forred: @Michelle, same! 00:58:55 Len Floran: Akira!!! 00:59:23 Ruth Frasur Davis: The Killing Joke is *chef's kiss* too. 00:59:34 Carolyn Ferguson: Nostalgic Waldenbooks wow brings back memories! 00:59:42 Afton Forred: The illicit book deal... 00:59:45 Jean Fellows: What I loved about the Eragon series is that the use of magic has consequences-- and a cost. It's the only series I've found that instead of just waving a wind and solving all the problems, you could make a mistake and have to live with the consequences-- or even die. Pretty amazing. 01:00:05 Ruth Frasur Davis: Absolute masterpiece 01:00:09 Emily Garland: I am familiar with the feeling of reading things your grown-ups wouldn't approve of! That's awesome. 01:00:09 Caroline Maxwell: Just shelved a volume lol 01:00:58 Jean Fellows: In Elfquest comics/graphic novels main characters die and it changes the narrative. 01:01:30 Emily Garland: I love Dan's emphasis on reading graphic, that the illustrations help you access the story; that immigrant families are bringing a different focus to reading; and that everyone reads at their own pace. 01:02:01 Leah Stark: Yes, on their terms is so important 01:02:24 Sharon Gulla Gulla: Two of my favorites! 01:02:39 Sharon Rawlins: @Sharon - agree! 01:02:55 Afton Forred: I have a program for struggling readers. The core concept is that they get to choose whatever they want to read. The primary goal is to get them to enjoy it. 01:04:05 CSLP- Melissa Hooke: @Afton, That's awesome! I had a reading disability as a kid and it was Stephen King that taught me to read! 01:04:06 Sharon Rawlins: Yes, Zevin's book is wonderful. 01:04:16 Katy Hite: tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow absolutely sucked me in, couldn't put it down 01:04:28 Afton Forred: @Melissa King's writing is SO good. 01:04:33 Jennifer Stranger: Our long-time 7th grade teacher at our middle school for decades taught with "The Outsider". It was a right of passage & she completely engaged the students. At the end of it, they had a dress up day - students dressed as "Socs" or "Greasers". She changed a LOT of kids' perceptions of reading with this experience! 01:04:34 Kate Smith - CSLP President (for 3 more weeks!): (I felt the same way about Confederacy of Dunces - glad I'm not alone!) 01:04:35 Barbara Joy Beatus-Vegh: Tx3 is one of my all time faves 01:05:44 Sherri Lazenby: I grew up in Oklahoma, Outsiders was a requirement! lol 01:06:00 Emily Garland: @Sherri Lazenby I bet it was! 01:06:26 Christian Somerville: Dan, you are really inspiring me! 01:06:54 Simon Jones: I like a lot of the Graphic Novel versions of popular series, it's a good gateway into chapter books, if the graphic novel successfully gets the kids excited about the world and interested in learning more. 01:07:05 Leah Wagner: MY Bachelor's is in Biology 01:07:17 Leah Wagner: English Lit minor lol 01:07:27 CSLP- Melissa Hooke: Mine is in natural resource management LOL! 01:07:32 Monica Mitchell: I have a general studies degree with a minor in religious studies. LOL 01:07:52 Tara Bahnsen: LOL BA in German and Russian 01:07:55 Michelle Sedillo: @ Leah Wagner I was a Bio major, English Lit minor too :D 01:08:16 Siri Larsen: Seeing those original illustrations at the Geisel library were one of my favorite parts of visiting UCSD when we visiting CA schools with our younger son several years ago. 01:08:18 Sherri Lazenby: English lit major, minors in general business and Spanish 01:08:18 Jennifer Runkle: my degree is in Biology and a minor in Park and Rec 01:08:44 Andy Elder: History with a minor in medieval studies. Academia is far too cut throat for me lol 01:08:56 Sharon Rawlins: Love Peter Brown! 01:09:10 Abdiellisse Almodovar: so incredibly brave of you 01:09:13 Caitlin Everhart: Mine is Physics... don't ask me a single question about physics, I don't remember LOL 01:09:36 Nuray Moreno: i love no David!! 01:10:04 Sharon Rawlins: I have a brother named David and I tease him that he's the real model for the books. 01:10:21 Emily Garland: @Sharon Rawlins :) Ha! 01:10:32 Arrington Thomas: Thanks. I am learning alot from this Zoom..... 01:10:36 Samantha Brown: My degree is in Anthropology, but I feel like that's actually very useful in libraries lol 01:11:01 Valerie Newby: Yes very informative ZOOM. Thank you so much for this! 01:11:06 CSLP- Melissa Hooke: @Samantha Especially this summer! 01:11:16 Sarah Clarke: Oh man, I loved that show 01:11:17 Sarah Sherga: Oh wow 01:11:22 Sherri Lazenby: Every type of degree is useful as a librarian! 01:11:27 Caitlin Everhart: the theme song just ran through my head 01:11:40 Sarah Meyer: I loved The Replacements! 01:11:42 Piper Nowlin: I loved the replacements! 01:13:34 Jolene Dodge: Kind of geeking out right now! Love Stan Lee!! 01:13:40 Len Floran: The Stan Lee impression is spot on lol 01:13:59 Trisha Hutcherson: That's extremely cool! 01:14:23 Monica Mitchell: Oh, Stan Lee. What a legend. <3 01:15:21 Kelly Diogo: Amazing! 01:16:02 Christian Somerville: WOW! 01:16:05 Valerie Newby: Love Dan's story!❤️ 01:16:18 Michelle Cuccherini: After the Fall has made me cry so many times <3 01:16:24 Maria Montejano: That's amazing! 01:16:37 Rhonda Sparks: Thanks for saying that, Dan! 01:17:49 Cate Land: I'm changing roles over to childrens in January. I'm super excited and called to this change. I'm using Beekle in my first storytime. I want to go hug out copy. 01:17:52 Amanda Rios-Place: H-Toen!!! 01:17:57 Amanda Rios-Place: town 01:18:08 Sharon Rawlins: @Cate. That's awesome. 01:19:02 Melanie Soto Ramos: Congrats Cate! That's super exciting. I'm having so much fun with story time. 01:20:00 Laura Bultman: Don't trust Fish is hilarious. The illustrations are amazing 01:20:02 Nuray Moreno: i really enjoyed dont trust a fish i read it on story time and the littles loved it! 01:20:06 Ann Hardginski: Don't Trust Fish's illustrations are just fabulous! 01:20:08 Ruth Frasur Davis: What a wonderful talk. 01:20:08 Hannah Garst: I love your story so much, Dan. (As I am confident we all do.) With all my heart, I thank you for sharing it. 01:20:11 Carolyn Ferguson: thank you 01:20:12 Elizabeth Sutherland: Thank you so much!! 01:20:13 Afton Forred: Thank you, Dan! 01:20:14 Becky Fowler: Thank you so much! 01:20:14 Sharon Rawlins: I love everything you said. Thank you. 01:20:15 Heather Nitzel: Thank you, Dan! 01:20:17 Valerie Newby: Thank you so much Dan! 01:20:17 Angela Martinez: Thank you! 01:20:18 Tori Tiso: yayyyy thank you Dan! 01:20:18 Christian Somerville: Wow!! Thank you for this! 01:20:20 Deanna Niles: Love---"Reading . . . make sure it doesn't feel like work" for kids. 01:20:22 janice pitkin: very interesting!! 01:20:22 Christian Somerville: So inspiring! 01:20:23 Jed Mast: Thank you! 01:20:23 Rhonda Sparks: Wow, I have enjoyed this so much! Thank you! 01:20:23 Ruth Frasur Davis: Thank you so much. It was delightful. 01:20:25 Michelle DeVore: That was wonderful Dan! Thank you so much for your stories. 01:20:27 Stephanie Sweeney: Thank you for such a wonderful talk! 01:20:27 Sarah Wroblewski: thank you Dan!!! 01:20:29 Antonia Bottoms: Thank you, Dan!! 01:20:30 Laura Mullins: Thank you, Dan! What an amazing story 01:20:32 Stefani Wiest: Thank you for sharing your journey! 01:20:33 Stacy Stiltner: Thank you! 01:20:34 Cate Land: Thank you Dan. So inspiring. I appreciate you. 01:20:34 Heather Nitzel: Love librarians "are arbiters of taste." :) 01:20:35 Alani Herd: Thank you, Dan! 01:20:36 Carla Deupree: Thank you Dan!! 01:20:42 Jennifer Rush: Thank you Dan! 01:20:49 Michelle Sedillo: Thank you! That was inspiring and motiviating 01:20:50 Anne Osborne: Thank you Dan for sharing your incredible story with us! 01:20:51 Cara Eden: Thank you, Dan!!! 01:20:54 Charlotte Cunningham: Thank you for your amazing reflections and memories! 01:20:55 Elma Shaffer: Thank you, Dan! 01:20:55 Tara Bahnsen: Thank you. 01:20:58 Amelia Blackmon: Thank you so much Dan!! 01:21:08 Brittany Powell: Thank you so much, Dan! 01:21:09 Francesca Bee: Thank you for sharing your story! 01:21:17 Leigh Ramey: Thank you for sharing, Dan! Excellent stories and presentation. 01:21:18 Genea Reynolds: Loved your story, best I have listened to for a while. Very informational and what a wonderful aspect how to see things. Thank you 01:21:22 Gillian Demeter: Thank you Dan!! 01:21:30 Tonya Stuempfl: Is there a website where we can purchase your signed prints? 01:21:35 Sydney Brown: Thank you for being here, Dan!! 01:21:37 Jolene Dodge: Yes! Thank you, Dan!! My children love your work, and both enjoy making art. Thank you for sharing your incredibly inspiring story! 01:22:22 Sandra Davis: Thank you!!!! 01:22:43 Patty Dalton: Thank you Dan for having a heart for those children who need a great book to connect them to reading. 01:22:53 Carrie Langendorff: Thank you so much for being her and sharing! 01:23:32 Jennifer Murray: Absolutely LOVE Drawn Together! 01:24:02 Ashley Crooks: Thank you so much for sharing! Also, thank you for the All the Hulk Feels (as someone who isn't a huge fan of comics as a kid other than Archie- I really didn't understand Hulk and that book explained a lot!). I reference it often with my son about feelings. The pictures are wonderful too! So glad you didn't go to Google! 01:26:10 CSLP- Melissa Hooke: Please put questions into the Q&A which is on the lower toolbar, look for the box with the ? in it 01:26:23 Tabetha Barry: Sports, fashion and music...what a variety! I LOVE IT! 01:27:04 Michelle Cuccherini: I've recommended that graphic memoir to so many middle readers :) 01:28:01 Sharon Rawlins: It was worth the wait! 01:28:25 rebecca Van Dan: Blankets was the first gn I read, so good. 01:28:27 Jennifer Stranger: Thank you so much, Dan, for sharing your story! This really has been a delightful webinar! Good luck to your kids! 01:28:46 Denise Neujahr: Go Dodgers! 01:28:47 Cindy Guerrero: Los Dodgerssssss 01:28:55 Afton Forred: Nice choice! 01:28:55 Michelle Shonebarger: ANKY!!!!!!! 01:28:55 Laura Bultman: That's my son's favorite, too! 01:28:58 Tegan Conner-Cole: AWWWWWWWWW NOT DODGERS LOL (Go Phils!) 01:28:59 Jess Crosen: YEESSS THE BEST ONE 01:29:03 Sarah Sherga: Thank you for sharing Dan! 01:29:05 Ruth Frasur Davis: anklosaurus is so good. 01:29:07 Vanessa Hartel: YES! My fav dino too! 01:29:10 Mark Murphy: Thats my favorite too 01:29:16 Andy Elder: Ankylosaurus gang RISE 01:29:19 Lori Alexander: Oh my gosh! That's my favorite dino, too! 01:29:22 Tonya Stuempfl: I love the anklo!!!! Great choice. 01:29:31 Jana Riggs: My favorite too! 01:29:36 Mark Murphy: It's the dinosaur for introverts 01:29:37 Kaitlin Ward: Mine is the plesiosaurus....good ole' Nessie 01:29:46 Crista Cannariato: It's such a fun word to say too 01:29:50 Megan Clement: I absolutely LOVE ABC. It is possibly my favorite book. I would teach it to my kids when I taught high school in North Carolina. It was easily accessible and engaged every single reader. They would FLY through it. And yes, it's about coming to terms with a very complicated AAPI identity, but it resonated with teenage black and Hispanic teens growing up in a dual-culture world that did not embrace them. There were so many deep and honest conversations. 01:29:54 Tegan Conner-Cole: I love this explanation! 01:29:55 Afton Forred: @Mark lol 01:29:55 Laura Mullins: Love that answer! 01:30:01 Mindy Roberts: Thagamizer is Stego! 01:30:09 Cierra Atanasio: I read the ankylosaurs maganize from ranger rick and there is a Hungerosauras. My new favorite!!! so funny!!! 01:30:30 Michelle Shonebarger: thank you 01:30:31 Michelle Cuccherini: Thank you! 01:30:32 Bridgette Robertson: Thank you! 01:30:32 Kelby Lawson: 🦕 01:30:33 Samantha Minch: Thanks! 01:30:33 Christina Amarillas: Thank you! 01:30:34 Laura Maki: Thank you!! 01:30:34 Sharon Rawlins: Thank you! 01:30:35 Tegan Conner-Cole: Thank you! 01:30:35 Tonya Stuempfl: Thank you! 01:30:38 Rae Church: Thank you! 01:30:39 Jere Johnston: Thank you! 01:30:39 Elaine Perez: Thank you! 01:30:39 josh easter: I used to love Ranger Rick Magazine 01:30:42 Windy Cardarelli: Thanks! 01:30:43 Shannon Rourke: Thank you! Wonderful start to the day! What a treat 01:30:56 Florence Foster: that was just absolutely awesome! 01:30:58 Kate Smith - CSLP President (for 3 more weeks!): We are pleased to announce that Dan will be the 2026 Summer Reading Champion. https://www.cslpreads.org/nationalsummerreadingchampion/ 01:30:59 Jacqueline Rosado: Amazing! Thank you! 01:31:03 Cristin Arnett: Thank you!! 01:31:04 Jennifer Stranger: Thank CSLP for organizing this!!!!! 01:31:05 Sharon Gulla Gulla: Thank you! 01:31:07 Kelby Lawson: Thank you! 01:31:21 Patty Dalton: Fantastic! 01:31:24 Abby Chumin: https://www.cslpreads.org/nationalsummerreadingchampion/ 01:31:27 Sharon Rawlins: Yay! 01:31:28 Heather Nitzel: Woohoo! 01:31:34 Christina Amarillas: Aww yay! 01:31:40 Naomi Bishop: yay!!! 01:31:40 Michelle Sedillo: Congratulations, Dan! 🥳 01:31:44 Anna Cogdill: Yay!! 01:31:45 Cathy Lancaster: Thank you from Michigan! 01:31:46 Bre Winters: Woohoo! 01:31:49 Sehrish Bhatti: Yay! 01:31:49 Kelly McCabe: Thank you Dan! 01:31:51 Windy Cardarelli: 2026 01:31:53 Marci Hoyt: the sign says 2025 01:32:18 Anne Osborne: the poster ssays 2025? 01:32:31 Beth Yates: I spy Digby on the poster Dan made!! 01:32:53 Kate Smith - CSLP President (for 3 more weeks!): OOPS! Thanks for catching that, folks! We will get that corrected, but he is the 2026 Reading Champion. :) 01:32:56 Katy Hite: Link to the poster - https://www.cslpreads.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Discover-the-Fun-of-Reading-Dan-Santat-Poster-1.pdf 01:33:01 Naomi Bishop: Needs to say 2026 champion 01:33:06 Dawn Krause: Thanks to our partner, Mackids,for helping us arrange this with Dan! 01:33:33 Donna Throckmorton: We will make sure the poster is updated to say 2026 before publishing. 01:33:45 Dawn Krause: We're so excited to have Dan as our 2026 Summer Reading Champion. We'll have more news and announcements about that coming soon! 01:33:53 Heidi Pruitt: I'm looking for my code to access the manual for 2026 to download it. Who do I need to contact? I'm in Michigan 01:34:18 Donna Throckmorton: Heidi - Reach out to your state rep. In MI that is Cathy Lancaster. 01:34:38 Beth Yates: Poster is here; it does not have a year on it! www.cslpreads.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Discover-the-Fun-of-Reading-Dan-Santat-Poster-1.pdf 01:35:24 Heidi Pruitt: Thank you, Donna 01:36:29 Donna Throckmorton: This link may work better - you can find the poster here - https://www.cslpreads.org/nationalsummerreadingchampion/ 01:36:58 Beth Yates: Thanks Donna! 01:37:40 Donna Throckmorton: I guess the other image is our promotion graphic. We will make sure that gets updated with the correct year. 01:38:34 Cassidy Kokasko: .3